"Some Of The Best Fast Food I've Ever Had": We Taste-Tested The Entirety Of Popeyes' "Pickle Menu" That's Blowing Up Online, And One Item Was Seriously Earth-Shattering

For each the earnestly messed-up things we collectively dealt with successful April, this period had 1 gleaming, shiny agleam spot: beloved fried chickenhearted concatenation Popeyes released a wholly pickle-themed menu.

The very-real (and very-buzzy) quality went unrecorded connected April 1, which made it astir apt the champion portion of counterprogramming we could've asked for connected an different horrific time of April Fool's Day firm hijinks and gags.

(Naturally, societal media managers were speedy to leap successful connected the buzz; determination 1 retired for the societal folks retired determination who person to woody with this each April 1st.)

Even extracurricular of the firm world, the quality truly hit. In the past weeks, Popeyes' pickle paper has been making headlines and going viral conscionable astir everywhere. Everyone and their parent (seemingly) made a TikTok video taste-testing the full enactment of pickle-y items. Sites similar The Takeout called it the "best paper ever." In possibly the biggest daze to me, personally, J. Kenji López-Alt — aka the internet's favourite nutrient adept — called the menu "shockingly good" and "some of the champion accelerated nutrient [he's] ever had." If that's not precocious praise, IDK what is.

Suffice it to say, it took nary much than 3 strolls past Popeyes' NYC flagship connected my commute to the bureau to determine that we needed to hop connected a pickle paper sensation trial to spot what each the fuss was about.

(Actually, I'm kidding. I knew we were gonna bash a sensation trial from the archetypal clip I watched Kenji instrumentality a saucy lil' wound of that fiery reddish pickle-glazed wing.)

Let's marque 1 happening clear: nary pickle haters here. I grabbed Meg, a bona fide pickle person and chap Tasty squad member, to behaviour this sensation trial with me. And successful lawsuit you're forgetting however overmuch I emotion pickles, ne'er hide that I erstwhile conducted a solo sensation test of each the astir fashionable pickle brands retired determination for this nonstop website. That's commitment.

Anyways! Moving connected to the dill-icious worldly (sorry).

The authoritative Popeyes pickle menu, which is simply a limited-time offering lone (we'll spot astir that 👀), has 5 halfway paper items: 3 Pickle Glaze items, including a sandwich, bone-in wings, and boneless wings; fried pickles; and pickle lemonade, which comes successful regular and frozen varieties.

Meg and I recovered a quiescent country to gorge ourselves connected fried nutrient and syrupy saccharine beverages, softly taking notes to ourselves connected however each point tasted arsenic we progressed done the bunch. How pickle-y did each point taste? Was the pickle spirit warranted oregon weird? Most of all...is it adjacent good?

At the extremity of our tasting experience, we independently assigned pickle scores (aka however pickle-y each point tasted) and wide scores retired of 5 to each item, past silently ranked them from 5 to 1 — worst to champion — and compared notes. Spoiler alert: we were successful implicit statement successful our rankings, and that's saying something.

Here's however we some ranked the implicit Popeyes pickle paper from worst to best...or, arsenic you'll soon find out, from bully to perfectly divine.

5. Regular Pickle Lemonade — For a portion that seemed similar it would beryllium a full pickle gimmick, it was thing but. Actually, situation we say, it could beryllium adjacent more pickle-y.

🥒 THE RATINGS:

Ross:

Pickle Score: 2

Overall Score: 3

Meg:

Pickle Score: 2

Overall Score: 2

Combined Score: 2.25 retired of 5

4. Pickle Glaze Wings — Were they good? Very (at slightest I thought so). Were they pickle-y enough? Absolutely not.

🥒 THE RATINGS:

Ross:

Pickle Score: 1

Overall Score: 5

Meg:

Pickle Score: 1

Overall Score: 3

Combined Score: 2.5 retired of 5 

3. Frozen Pickle Lemonade — Barring its aggravated sweetness, this portion is the beatified grail of frozen lemonades. Dilly, tart, and perfectly slushy, I conjecture frozen lemonade has ever been secretly begging to beryllium pickle-ified.

🥒 THE RATINGS:

Ross:

Pickle Score: 5

Overall Score: 3

Meg:

Pickle Score: 3

Overall Score: 4

Combined Score: 3.75 retired of 5 

2. Fried Pickles — While not the champion fried pickles we've had, for accelerated food, they were epic and jam-packed with flavor...even earlier dipping them.

🥒 THE RATINGS:

Ross:

Pickle Score: 5

Overall Score: 4

Meg:

Pickle Score: 5

Overall Score: 4

Combined Score: 4.5 retired of 5 

1. Pickle Glaze Sandwich — No notes. OK, precise fewer notes, but each successful all, this is 1 awesome chickenhearted sandwich that tastes similar thing you'd easy wage $15+ for, not $7.

🥒 THE RATINGS:

Ross:

Pickle Score: 3

Overall Score: 5

Meg:

Pickle Score: 4

Overall Score: 5

Combined Score: 4.25 retired of 5

Yes, we're alert that this technically has a little people than #2, and that's due to the fact that it conscionable *wowed* america more...and being wowed by nutrient is kinda priceless!

There you person it, y'all. If you're drooling each implicit your telephone by now, plaything by Popeyes earlier May 5 erstwhile the pickle paper supposedly volition vanish for good. Though, to beryllium honest, I deliberation Popeyes would beryllium astute to support it around.